Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer.

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer. Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?

A global map of the ocean floor could buoy the economy . Daniel Ackerman Jun 21, 2024. ... funded by governments and nonprofits around the world, to map the entire seafloor for the first time.

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

The map of ocean floor features like seamounts Southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, is based on sea surface height data from SWOT. Purple denotes regions that are lower relative to higher regions like ...

Maps of the seafloor are constantly expanding, especially with the support of the Seabed 2030 initiative (which Ferrini is part of) that aims to have a complete map of the ocean's floor by 2030.

Global ocean map could increase safety, give early tsunami alerts : Short Wave Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would ...

The work was published in 1977 by National Geographic under the title The World Ocean Floor and Tharp would later donate the entire map collection to the Library of Congress in 1995.

The crew of the E/V Nautilus has already spotted whale corpses, octopus gardens, and the wreckage of German submarines sitting on the ocean floor. There’s much more to see.